Government must do more to foster national cohesion

In January 2008, Kenya experienced an unprecedented wave of violence that threatened to tear the country apart, and would have perhaps succeeded had it not been for the tireless efforts of a panel of eminent African Persons led by Mr Kofi Annan, the former Secretary General of the United Nations.

Following the disputed elections of December 2007, sporadic violence broke out in major towns of the country, especially in the Rift Valley that left more than 1000 people dead and another 600,000 displaced.